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The Covenant of Abraham: The Untold Story of Sarah, Hagar, and the Father of Nations What if the most famous act of faith in history was also the most devastating? For thousands of years, we've heard Abraham's story told one way-as the ultimate example of faith and obedience. But behind every promise lies a price, and behind every miracle stands someone who paid for it. This is not your Sunday School version of Abraham's story. This is the full account-the barrenness and the miracle, the cruelty and the grace, the exile and the covenant, the knife raised and the substitute provided. It's the story of what it really costs to be part of God's purposes, told with unflinching honesty and profound compassion. The Covenant of Abraham is a stunning multi-perspective narrative that brings the ancient story to vivid, heartbreaking life. Through the eyes of Sarah, Hagar, Isaac, Ishmeal and Abraham himself, discover what the biblical text hints at but never fully reveals: the crushing weight of being chosen, the impossible costs of divine promises, and the human hearts that carried them. Sarah waited sixty-four years for a child she was promised, watching her body fail month after month while her husband's God remained silent. When she finally bore Isaac at ninety years old, she thought the suffering was over. She was wrong. Her greatest trial would come when she learned what her husband was willing to do to their miracle son on a mountain called Moriah. Hagar was property before she was a person-an Egyptian slave given to Abraham, used to solve Sarah's problem, then cast into the wilderness with her teenage son to die. Twice she encountered God in the desert. Twice He saved her. But survival came at a cost that would echo through generations. Isaac grew up knowing he was special-the covenant child, the impossible son, the heir to everything. Then his father tied him to an altar and raised a knife above his heart. He survived, but something died on that mountain that could never be restored. Trust. Innocence. The belief that a father's love was unconditional. Abraham heard God's voice in Ur and followed it into the unknown. For a hundred years, he obeyed every command, made every sacrifice, paid every price. Until the final test: kill your son, your only son, whom you love. He raised the knife. An angel stopped him. But Abraham spent the rest of his life wondering: Did I pass God's test, or did I fail at being human? Drawing directly from Scripture-Genesis, the Torah, Islamic tradition, historical context, and ancient apocryphal texts-while filling in the human details the Bible leaves unspoken, The Covenant of Abraham is a masterwork of biblical historical fiction that will challenge everything you thought you knew about faith, family, and the price of promises. From the ziggurat of Ur to the wilderness of Paran, from the slave markets of Egypt to the altar on Mount Moriah, from the laughter of an old woman to the tears of a discarded son-this is the covenant story as you've never encountered it before. Perfect for readers who loved The Red Tent, The Source, and Testament-and for anyone who has ever wondered what faith really costs. ""A devastating, beautiful meditation on what it means to be chosen by God and what that choice demands from everyone it touches.""

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